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GOP analyst: ‘Highly unlikely’ governor loses Republican gubernatorial primary a tough one to predict By Vic Vela [email protected]

A longtime Republican political ana-lyst said he doesn’t know which of the four GOP contenders for governor will come out of next week’s primary — but it’s doubtful that any of them can beat Gov. John Hickenlooper in the fall.

However, the four Republicans who are vying to unseat Hickenlooper take issue with that assessment.

Bob Loevy, a retired Colorado Col-lege political science professor who has analyzed Colorado politics for decades, believes that Hickenlooper “remains the strong favorite” to win re-election in No-vember, regardless of which candidate Republican voters select to face him in the June 24 primary.

“Yes, this is an exciting primary, but what I take away from it is, at the moment, it’s highly unlikely any of these candidates can beat Hickenlooper,” said Loevy, a reg-istered Republican.

Voters ballots will have their ballots tal-lied next week for four Republican candi-dates next week: former Congressmen Bob Beauprez and Tom Tancredo; Secretary of State Scott Gessler; and former state Sen-ate Minority Leader Mike Kopp.

Loevy said that it’s “almost impossible to say who is going to win.”

“There is little basis on which to think which of these candidates stands out from the other,” he said. “The vote is going to be split. None are total non-entities... you can give a reason why each one of them might win and why each one might lose.”

Regardless, Loevy believes that “none of these candidates have the asset of look-ing like a winner in November.”

“The main criticism of (Hickenlooper) is he’s too moderate,” he said. “In that case you’re criticizing him for what wins elec-tions.”

But in recent interviews with Colo-rado Community Media that occurred prior to Loevy’s analysis, the GOP hopefuls pointed out plenty of areas where they see weaknesses in the governor’s record.

Beauprez blasted Hickenlooper’s “fail-ure of leadership” on several policy fronts. Tancredo said the governor “kicked the ball down the fi eld” when he granted a temporary reprieve for death row inmate Nathan Dunlap, who killed four people at an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1996.

Kopp said that Hickenlooper hasn’t provided leadership on the hot issue of lo-cal community control of hydraulic frack-ing.

“He should stand up against the radical

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Growth with an eye to the grey St. Anthony expands emergency department By Clarke Reader [email protected]

A trip to the emergency room is never going to be an entirely painless process, but St. Anthony Hospital has expanded its emergency department to provide as much safety and comfort as possible to patients.

The expansion has been opened for less than a month and features private rooms, noise reduction, soft lighting, skid-resis-tant fl ooring and extra thick mattresses. There are also assistive devices to make communication easier and advanced vi-sual and hearing technologies are avail-able for those in need.

According to Dr. Winston Tripp, Medi-cal Director of the hospital’s Emergency Department, a crucial part of the expan-sion was to offer the best possible care to the senior population. With the coming “silver tsunami” more and more seniors are requiring emergency care, he added.

“We have the new TransMotion stretch-er-chairs here at St. Anthony Hospital, which can change from a stretcher and transport device into a chair,” Tripp said. “It’s far more comfortable and allows for ease in transportation.”

Beth Dunn, a registered nurse and Di-

rector of Emergency Services, there has been a steady rise in senior patients at St. Anthony and that has lead the hospital to examine the ways they can give these pa-tients the best experience.

“We pride ourselves on organizing our resources here to provide a very positive and professional experience,” she said. “Our patient satisfaction score is above 92 percent in the last 20 months and that’s something we’re very proud of.”

Dunn added that the hospital is one of the few recipients of the Lantern Award for Excellence.

While it is too early to get statistical feedback about how the expanded emer-gency services have been received, the anecdotal has been extremely positive and the hospital is looking to build on that

The new TransMotion stretcher-chairs are at St. Anthony Hospital, which can change from a stretcher and transport device into a chair. Photos by Justin LeVett Photography

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Expanding educationRed Rocks Community College growsBy Crystal [email protected]

Over six years ago the executive team at Red Rocks Community College saw a need to expand in the Arvada community, and

began dreaming.A few weeks ago, the dream became a

reality when the Colorado Legislature ap-proved $10 million in funding, solidifying the institution’s dream of expansion.

“This, today, is no longer a vision for the Arvada campus it’s a reality for the Arvada campus,” said Ron Slinger, executive direc-tor of the Red Rocks Foundation.

Currently, the college has a campus in Arvada, 5420 Miller St., but with an influx in enrollment, the campus is near capacity.

“This is our current campus, and I have to tell you — we have out grown that cam-pus,” Red Rocks President Michele Haney said. “We’re hoping that this next oppor-tunity as we triple the size of the campus, that we will be able to do a lot more, and

for a longer period of time.”The new building will allow Red Rocks

to triple both its enrollment and program-ming, with a primary focus on health care and science career fields. The campus will house its current programs as well as sev-eral new sections such as; Nurse’s Aide, RN Refresher, Health Professional, Medical As-sisting and Office Management, Phlebot-omy Technician and Physician’s Assistant and general education courses.

“What makes sense for us is to make Ar-vada the health campus, and I like to say we’re the ‘Anshutz of the West’,” Haney said. “I really want to have this campus known for its high quality courses and continue to be on the cutting edge of the industry.”

This expansion is currently 77 percent

funded, and over the next year, the Red Rocks team will focus on raising the ad-ditional 23 percent and finding the proj-ect’s lead architect who will design and construct the new 50,000 square foot, two-story building.

“This is absolutely wonderful that this is all coming together,” Mayor Marc Williams said. What you’re doing is crucial and very important, and I’m sure Arvada will have a role to play,”

The executive team is currently seek-ing a $1 million donation from the City of Arvada in the as an investment in the project. The new building is scheduled to break ground in summer 2015, and open for classes in the fall of 2016.

Renderings of the proposed two-story addition, shown in white, to the Arvada campus will house health and science programs at Red Rocks Community College. Courtesy photos

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I’ve written before about the increasingly common practice in this seller’s market of listing agents promoting their listings long before they are put on the MLS. This month the Colorado Real Es-tate Commission took on this issue from a consumer’s perspective (which is their duty) and issued a position state-ment (CP-44) that ad-dresses the matter well — and quite concisely. The document recogniz-es that there can be valid reasons for promoting a listing as “coming soon,” but if the listing agent’s motive is to earn more money by finding an unrepresented buyer and thereby not sharing his com-mission with another licensee, then that violates license law by not serving the client well. The position statement cites the requirement of licensees, when acting as agents, to “exercise rea-sonable skill and care for the sell-

er” and, further, “promote the inter-ests of the seller or landlord with the utmost good faith, loyalty, and

fidelity.” A licensee serving the client as a transaction broker instead of as an agent still has the obligation to “exercise reasona-ble skill and care,” and CP-44 states that fail-ure to inform the seller of the “material risks or benefits of a transac-tion which are actually known by the broker”

would violate that requirement to exercise reasonable skill and care. The position statement states that “a broker who places the im-portance of his commission above his duties, responsibilities or obli-gations to the consumer who has engaged him is practicing business in a manner that endangers the interest of the public.” The dilemma faced by the…

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interests in his own party who want to shut down the oil and gas industry in the state,” Kopp said.

And the candidates believe that Hicken-looper is anything but a moderate, having signed into law bills on gun control, elec-tion overhaul and civil unions, to name a few.

“Look at Hickenlooper,” Gessler said. “He says he’s a moderate, that’s what he claims. And yet he signs the most liberal agenda in the history of Colorado.”

But Loevy feels that the candidates from his own party have their own set of obstacles to overcome.

Loevy said that Tancredo benefi ts from a split fi eld because of a “set block of highly conservative Republican voters supporting him.” At the same time, Loevy wonders if voters might see Tancredo as unelectable, given his unabashed views on issues like immigration that could turn off moderate voters in the fall.

Loevy said that Gessler has done an ef-

fective job in soliciting Republican voters through email, which has helped him in fundraising efforts.

“But then Gessler, as we all know, has gotten bad press,” Loevy said, referring to a state ethics commission’s fi nding that he violated ethics rules for using state money to attend an out-of-state Republican event.

Loevy said that Beauprez could very well win the nomination, but wonders if his double digit loss in a 2006 guberna-torial race to Bill Ritter still lingers in the minds of general election voters.

And Kopp might be over his head, ac-cording to Loevy.

“He just does not have, in my view, enough of a statewide reputation,” he said. “I think the offi ce is way larger than a person with his qualifi cations can hope to win.”

Hickenlooper could be vulnerable if we see a Republican wave sweep across the country in the fall, Loevy said.

“Maybe in a giant Republican sweep someone might be able to win a close race against Hickenlooper,” he said. “Unless that happens, this is a race of theoretical interest.”

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George Claggett was a Marine who lived by his own defi nition of karma.

The Vietnam veteran be-lieved that treating others well wasn’t about reciproca-tion; rather, it was a belief that his goodness would show up elsewhere, even if he wasn’t the one reaping the benefi t.

It’s a good thing that Claggett wasn’t expecting anything in return for his actions toward others, or for fi ghting in a war of which many wanted no part, be-cause karma wasn’t there for him during the last months of his life — much of which was spent in frustration over his dealings with the Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs.

“It was hell, absolute hell,” said Michael O’Brien, a close friend and Claggett’s power of attorney, when asked what it was like dealing with the VA system.

According to O’Brien, Claggett would spend sever-al weeks just trying to sched-ule an appointment to see a doctor at the VA hospital in Denver. When he would fi -nally obtain appointments, he would sometimes have to wait for hours to see a doctor.

Claggett, of Denver, also waited several weeks to re-ceive lab results of a tumor that contributed to his death on May 2. He was 66.

“It just seemed like all he was doing was waiting,” O’Brien said.

Claggett’s story is one of many that have surfaced in recent weeks regarding sys-tematic failures and corrup-tion within the VA depart-

ment.“I am absolutely stunned,

particularly as a combat vet-eran, that this agency that’s entrusted to meet our obli-gations for those who served in uniform can be so incred-ibly incompetent ... and be so corrupt,” said 6th Con-gressional District Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican who served in the Iraq War.

Last week, Coffman joined every other member of the House in voting for a bill that aims to address some of the issues that have caused veterans like Claggett to receive substandard care from their government.

The legislation is a start, say members of Congress, to restructuring a government-run entity that has been fail-ing its soldiers for a very long time.

“I am so angry and dis-appointed,” said Rep. Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat who represents Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. “There are too many stories like that.”

Seeking better options for vetsLast week, the House

gave unanimous approval to the Veterans Access to Care Act. The bill requires that the VA send veterans to private health providers when the department is unable to pro-vide care within 14 days.

The legislation would also ban bonuses for VA employ-ees and puts in place greater oversight over the depart-ment’s operations.

The bill comes on the heels of a federal audit that shows that more than 57,000 veterans have waited at least three months to see a doc-tor, while others who asked for appointments never re-ceived one.

Other fi ndings have shown that VA employees — whose bonuses are tied to wait time reductions — falsi-fi ed reports to hide informa-tion about long wait times. Reports have also shown that veterans died awaiting treat-

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resignation of department director Eric Shinseki.

Coffman and Perlmutter believe that the legislation will go a long way in help-ing veterans receive better care, without having to deal with unreasonable — and sometimes life threatening — waits.

“At the end of the day, it will allow the VA to have a much better system to allow vets options they don’t have now,” Coffman said.

Coffman, who is the chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcom-mittee of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, added an amendment to the bill that sets aside money to pay for court costs that could come

as investigations into the scandal continue.

Coffman said that em-ployees who were falsifying reports out of motivation for bonus pay could end up fac-ing criminal charges.

“There are veterans who have died as a result of ma-nipulating these appoint-ment wait times for fi nancial gain,” Coffman said. “To me, that’s not just a matter of fi r-ing people. (It includes) the possibility of criminal charg-es.”

The bill is one of several efforts to change the VA sys-tem. Acting VA Director Sloan Gibson has also spelled out a list of reforms that he would like to see made.

Michael O’Brien thinks about his late friend George Claggett as he sits in a booth inside a bar that Claggett often frequented, Denver’s Park Tavern and Restau-rant, on June 13. On the table sits the cap that Claggett, a Vietnam veteran, often wore. Photos by Vic Vela

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Perlmutter said the VA’s “arteries have hardened” over the years, due to a culture that has preferred to sweep problems under the rug while hoping that no one notices.

“There’s more of a `protect your turf, pro-tect your fanny’ mentality,” Perlmutter said. “There’s so many good people, but there’s others who are protecting their reputation. That’s really a problem within the system.”

The Senate passed a similar bill the same week. It’s likely that the two chambers will come to a consensus on a singular piece of legislation in the coming weeks.

The wounded warriorO’Brien said that the last year of Claggett’s

life was spent in grave sickness. He was too sick to work. He often had blood in his urine, lost an unhealthy amount of weight and was also suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Dis-order that often brought on fl ashbacks.

O’Brien said that he tried to set up ap-pointments for weeks and when he was fi -nally successful in obtaining one, Claggett waited for more than an hour to see a doctor — who never showed up.

Claggett’s peace fi nally came during the early morning hours of May 2.

“I gave him some morphine the night before and woke up at three in the morning and I saw immediately that he was gone,” he said. “And the son of a bitch had a smile on his face.”

Claggett left O’Brien the little amount of money he had at the time of his death to give to the Wounded Warriors Project, an orga-nization that provides services to wounded veterans.

O’Brien said it wasn’t in Claggett’s na-ture to “advocate for himself” that he was a Vietnam veteran who deserved better treatment for serving his country.

“My question is, why does a Marine have to advocate for care so he can die with a little dignity?” O’Brien said. “Why does he have to push a system to get him aid that we should be bending over back-wards to give?”


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Golden lighting transcends LED Sunlight in a bulb o� ered at iGrow By Amy Woodward [email protected]

A new Golden store, iGrow is taking gar-dening to new heights with “true sunlight” induction lighting that is blossoming im-pressive results.

iGrow is a learning center and store featuring induction technology, originally patented in 1891 by Nikola Tesla, that has been modifi ed into induction lighting for agriculture.

“Induction lighting is basically a current passing through gas,” said Kyle Fanfoni, manager and sales rep at iGrow. “The gas has been charged … these magnets here help keep the electrons moving,” Fanfoni explained.

The secret to iGrow’s induction lighting is the Photosynthetic Active Radiation or PAR spectrum, which is used to measure light intensity that plants need to grow. Researchers perfected the spectrum by in-corporating seven colors from the sun, and put it into an elongated 4-foot long bulb.

Other lighting sources used for indoor fl owers and plants typically use lumens which measures the amount of visible light emitted from a given source.

“Your plants just grow healthier, their actually photosynthesizing,” Fanfoni said. Another bonus is a reduction in heat emis-sions and a dip in utility costs, he said.

One induction lighting bulb runs on 1.6 amps at 240 vaults. The amp is less than an average users gaming console such as an Xbox that runs at around 2.30 amps.

“You can actually recycle this light,” Fanfoni said. “This little piece of mercury,

they put a tab here so when you’re done you just snap it off and send it back.”

Each induction bulb comes with a hood and ballast as well as a fi ve-year-warranty.

There has been some criticism tossed at induction lighting from various online blogs and forums which state induction blubs cannot be dimmed, producing only fl ood lighting.

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working with Gerry Dietzer at the Univer-sity of Maryland, they found out that the lights did not need to be dimmed, because plants want 100 percent of the energy pos-sible all the time,” he said. “Think of places in the world with lots of sunlight like the equator where plants are always getting as close to 100 percent of the sun as pos-sible. If you were to dim the sun by 25 or even 50 percent, the plants would not grow as much as they do in these jungles and tropic zones.”

The biggest hurdle for iGrow will be pulling clientele away from their high in-

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“It’s a small battle with people,” Fan-foni said. “People are so set in there ways and have done it for so long, that’s kind of what we’re fi ghting now … it’s just having a change, that’s it,” he said. “You’re not grow-ing with intensity, you’re growing with the sun.”

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Ritchie ready to exit stage

Daniel L. Ritchie, the “godfather” of Denver theater, has announced his retire-ment as chief executive officer of the Den-ver Center for the Performing Arts. Ritchie will continue to serve as chairman of the board of trustees following his retirement as CEO.

Ritchie revealed his decision at the June 10 regularly scheduled meeting of the trustees and then to a meeting of DCPA employees. He also is sending a letter to the customers and donors whose support of the DCPA has been the foundation of its success.

“This is the right moment for me to step aside and for a new CEO to guide the DCPA into its bright future,” Ritchie said. “The DCPA is poised to move to a new level of creativity with an even warmer embrace of our audience. My full energy will now be focused on board matters, including the campaign to reauthorize the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District in 2016.”

Ritchie joined the DCPA in 2007 as CEO and chairman of the board. Upon his ap-pointment, the board and Ritchie conclud-ed that the two positions should ultimately be separated. Today’s announcement completes that plan.

Ritchie, who was known as “Dapper Dan” for his sharp attire, led the DCPA through a period of dynamic creative growth and to financial success. Under his leadership, the DCPA expanded its new-play development program, launched three national Broadway touring pre-mieres, conducted two successful match-ing-gift fundraising campaigns, and served more than 400,000 students through its extensive theatre education programs.

He also has been instrumental in diver-sifying the DCPA’s programming with the development of Off-Center @ The Jones, an experimental theater designed to make theater less formal, more fun, decidedly in-novative and appealing to new audiences. Ritchie has made generous personal financial donations to the DCPA and has served without pay as CEO during his entire tenure.

But I will remember him most for his “performances” to raise money for DCPA endeavors. One year for Saturday Night Alive, the DCPA’s granddaddy fundraiser, Ritchie embraced his inner rock star with over-the-top enthusiasm. He appeared in a full costume as former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.

A search will begin immediately for Ritchie’s successor. He will remain as CEO until his successor has joined the organiza-tion and he will work with the new CEO during a period of transition.

Sprouts opens in EnglewoodSprouts Farmers Market, one of the

fastest-growing natural food retailers in the country, opened its first store in Engle-wood (5001 S. Broadway) on June 11. This is the 17th Sprouts in the Denver area.

Sprouts is a healthy grocery store offer-ing fresh, natural and organic foods. The grocery chain offers fresh produce, bulk foods, vitamins and supplements, pack-aged groceries, meat and seafood, baked

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‘The Graduate’ tackles decade of change with humorBy Clarke [email protected]

The 1960s were a time a tremen-dous upheaval in the culture of the country and that change was reflected not only in obvious ways, but in smaller and more subtle ways that show themselves in art.

“The Graduate” taps into the undercurrents of unease and turns it into something hilarious, bracing and subversive.

“The Graduate,” adapted by Terry Johnson, based on the novel by Charles Webb and the screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry and directed by Rick Yaconis, will be playing at The Edge Theatre, 1560 Teller St., through June 29.

Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m.

Due to some sexual situations and partial nudity, the show is for mature audiences only and no one younger than 17 is admitted to the perfor-mance.

“I think the story fits the time really well but the film version was a little more focused on that,” said Patty Ionoff, who plays Mrs. Robinson. “I think the play is much funnier than the film is.”

The story of “The Graduate” cen-ters on Benjamin Braddock (Chandler Darby), a recent college graduate who returns home to his parents bored and disillusioned.

Rudderless he finds himself at-tracted to his father’s business partner, Mrs. Robinson, and starts an affair with the older woman. However, when he meets and falls for Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, Elaine (Adrian Egolf), Benjamin has to make some kind of decision about his future for the first time.

For Darby, in his first performance at The Edge, he said it was important that he connected to Benjamin, and since he just graduated from the University of Northern Colorado, that was easy to do.

“It’s kind of ironic that I was chosen for this part since I am a graduate, and I think the language of the play is very appropriate,” he said. “There is a lot of pressure, especially once you gradu-ate college, and so that’s something I relate to.”

Anne Bancroft’s portrayal of Mrs. Robinson is rightly iconic, and some fantastic actresses have played the character on Broadway, so Ionoff said for her it

was important to go her own way on the character.

“I looked at the relationship she has with her husband, which is some-thing you get hints about in the play,” she said. “In a way my performance is inspired by some of my mother’s friends who even if they went to col-lege were supposed to get married and stay at home.”

Ionoff said that for many women of the 1960s, so much was going on in their country and world and they were mainly relegated to the sidelines.

“It must have been so frustrating because they saw all this change, and they weren’t able to participate,” she said. “They were stuck.”

For Darby, the show has been a great way to make people laugh while at the same time getting them to think about topics like sex and disillusionment in a different way than normal.

“It’s a great cast and people can just dive in and have a great time,” Ionoff said. “It takes everyone back to the sixties and all those changes.”

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Shakespeare down southThe Westcliffe Center for the Performing

Arts announced that “Shakespeare in the Sangres,” the 2014 summer outdoor live theater production executive produced by Rancher’s Roost Cafe, will take place June 19 through July 5 in the Feedstore Am-phitheater Park behind the Historic Jones Theater in Westcliffe, in the Wet Mountain Valley west of Pueblo.

Two comedy productions will be of-fered: “The Comedy of Errors,” a dramatic comedy by William Shakespeare, shows at 6:30 p.m. June 19 and 21; 6: 30 p.m. June 27 and July 4; and 2 p.m. June 29 and July 6. “The Imaginary Invalid,” a classic com-edy by Moliere, shows at 6:30 p.m. June 20; 2 p.m. June 22; 6:30 p.m. June 26 and July 3; and at 6:30 p.m. June 28 and July 5.

Guests are encouraged to arrive early and bring blankets and/or chairs to sit on. The park opens one hour before showtime.

Tickets cost $20 for adults and $15 for teens and can be purchased at www.jones-theater.com.

In addition to the two “Shakespeare in the Sangres” productions, “A Taste of Shakespeare” will be held to kick off the season at 6:30 p.m. June 17 in Studio 2 of the Jones Theater.

Top TacosQuien es el mejor? (Who is the best?)

That will be determined when gobs of local chefs compete in Top Taco Denver, presented by US Foods, a taco and mar-garita tasting event from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. June 26 in the Sculpture Park on Speer Boulevard between Arapahoe and Champa streets. VIP ticket holders will be admitted at 5:30 p.m.

Top Taco trophies will be awarded by judges and for people’s choice for the Top Creative, Top Traditional Taco and Best Margarita.

Tickets are $65 for general admission; $125 for VIP hosted by Patron Private Lounge with bar and specialty menu, private tasting by chef Mark Ferguson, a complimentary three-month Dining Out card, a specialty rare and premium Patron tequila tasting and VIP restrooms.

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Mountains of fun at backyard benefit

When you live in Golden the Rocky Mountains are a part of your life. They are your backyard and most people here like to take advantage of them and experience a lot of activities at higher elevations. You can’t walk downtown without bumping into mountaineering shops, mountain bike shops, kayak shops or outdoor cloth-ing outlets. When Golden was founded it was the place to stock up on supplies for gold mining, but nowadays it’s the place to go to get anything and everything you need for an outdoor mountain adventure.

Growing up here meant that you learned a lot about the mountains. Where to go, what to do and how to survive up there when you got off the beaten path. We actually learned a lot of that in school. Here in Jefferson County there are Out-door Lab Schools as a part of our school system and we are fortunate enough to have access to them so our kids learn how to enjoy and take care of these wonderful mountains that we all have grown to love so much.

But not all kids are so fortunate. A lot of inner-city kids never get a chance to get involved with activities that take them up into the mountains and out of their neighborhoods. To some of these kids the mountains are just something they can see “over there” but never get to experi-ence.

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The CMC has also put together a schol-arship program that enables underprivi-leged and special needs kids a chance to participate in these activities as well. They provide these scholarships to thousands of students in the area every year.

But, things like this cost money. So, on Friday, June 27 the CMC will be hosting their 2nd annual Backyard Benefit for the Youth Education Program. It’s a family evening filled with barbecue, beverages, bluegrass music, lawn games and a silent

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Tickets for this event run $25 with kids under 12 admitted free and it includes all food and drinks. The proceeds go to the YEP scholarship fund so it’s a good cause to support.

To find out more about this event as well as what the Colorado Mountain Club and their Youth Education Program has to offer go to their website at www.cmc.org/backyard. You can also call them at (303) 279-3080.

If you live in Colorado, you owe it to yourself and your kids to learn all you can about our mountains and how to safely enjoy them. It’s programs like this that give our youth an incentive to get involved with things other than hanging out on street corners and getting into trouble. There is a whole different perspective on things in the city when you are looking down on them from the top of a moun-tain.

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Shepherding a legacy Lakewood author remembers Shep the Turnpike Dog By Clarke Reader creader@colorado communitymedia.com

Legacies are important.Some legacies are larger than others,

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“This is a project I’ve been working for around three and a half years,” Havey ex-plained. “I have a fi lm production com-pany with my family and Broomfi eld hired us to do a fi lm for them and that’s when I came across Shep.”

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Charlotte Havey’s “Shep the Turnpike Dog” tells the story of Shep, a homeless dog that was taken in by toll workers on the Denver-Boulder turnpike. Courtesy photo

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FRIDAY/JUNE 20 TO SUNDAY/JUNE 29

THEATER SHOW Performance Now Theatre Company presents “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, through Sunday, June 29, at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Al-lison Parkway. Call 303-987-7845 or go to www.performance-now.org for information and tickets.

FRIDAY/JUNE 20; WEDNESDAY/JUNE 25; SATURDAY/JUNE 28

SUMMER CONCERTS Colorado Chautauqua in Boulder presents its 2014 summer concert season. All shows begin at 8 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at tickets.chautauqua.com, or at the Chautauqua box o� ce. Go to www.chautauqua.com for details. The lineup: Friday, June 20, Andrew Bird & The Hands of Glory, with Tift Merritt; Wednesday, June 25, Mavis Staples and Marc Cohn; Saturday, June 28, Angelique Kidjo; Saturday, July 5, Bela Fleck and Brooklyn Rider; Saturday, July 12, Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai; Saturday, July 19, Loudon Wainwright III and Iris Dement; Monday, July 28, Rufus Wainwright; Saturday, Aug. 9, Paula Poundstone; Sunday, Aug. 10, Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott; Tuesday, Aug. 12, B.B. King; Wednesday, Aug. 13, John Hiatt & The Combo and The Taj Mahal Trio; Thursday, Aug. 28, Ziggy Marley; and Saturday, Sept. 13, Steven Wright.

SATURDAY/JUNE 21

WILD WEST Colorado Railroad Museum presents Wild West Day, “Robberies, Rascals & Rides,” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 21. Families can ride behind the steam locomotive on vintage passenger coaches and experience what it was like to travel 100 year ago. Purchase tickets at www.ColoradoRail-roadMuseum.org. Call 303-279-4591.

SATURDAY/JUNE 21

SWING BAND Sentimental Sounds Swing Band performs 4-6 p.m. Saturday, June 21 at the D Note in Arvada. There is no cover charge, and everyone is welcome. Call 303-463-6683 for information.

SATURDAY/JUNE 21

TEACHER WORKSHOP Teachers will explore a variety of simple classroom strategies for developing students’ social and emotional intelligence at a two-day workshop 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 21, and Sunday, June 22, at the Wilderness Early Learning Center, 2845 Wilderness Place, Boulder. Each

participant will receive the book “In Focus: Developing Social and Emotional Intelligence, One Day at a Time.” Contact Tom McSheehy at 720-369-3000 or [email protected] to register, or go to http://teachingheartinstitute.com/teacher-workshops/

SATURDAY/JUNE 21

FILM SCREENING Pollination Planet will screen the � lm “More than Honey” at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at Louisville Middle School. A honeybee observation hive will be on hand and more information about how you can help protect bees and other pollinators. Screening is free.

SATURDAY/JUNE 21

SCOUT SALE Scout Troop 166 plans its Drop and Shop Yard Sale 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, 20th and Miller Street, Lakewood. Drive up and drop o� your clean, reusable items, then park and shop at the sale. Mattresses, televisions and building materials cannot be accepted. Items not sold will go to ARC. Proceeds from the sale will pay for equipment and camping costs for Troop 166.

SATURDAY/JUNE 21

COMMUNITY DEBUT Enjoy a feather-masked stilt jumper, a Hula-hooper, face painting and cupcakes at the debut of Leyden Ranch in Arvada. Celebration is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at 16249 W. 84th Drive.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY/JUNE 22-22, AUG. 2-3

TEACHING WORKSHOP Colorado-based Teaching Heart Institute is o� ering workshops on how to teach Social and Emotional Learning skills in the classroom for teachers, school counselors, and principals K-8. During the two-day workshop, teachers will explore a variety of simple and easy-to-do class-room strategies for developing students’ social and emotional intelligence. Each participant will receive the book “In Focus: Developing Social and Emotional Intelligence, One Day at a Time,” which uses a brain-based approach to teach social emotional learning to students in grades K-8. Classes are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 21-22, and Aug. 2-3, at Wilderness Early Learning Center, 2845 Wilderness Place, Boulder. Contact Tom McSheehy at 720-369-3000 or email [email protected]. To register, go to http://teachingheartinstitute.com/teacher-workshops/

SUNDAY/JUNE 22

FLOOD HISTORY The Lyons Historical Society will have its � nal � ood gathering event from 2-4 p.m. Sunday June 22 at the Walt Self Center, 335 Railroad Ave., Lyons. Go to lyons� oo-dhistory.org for details.

SUNDAY TO THURSDAY/JUNE 22-26

BIBLE SCHOOL St. Paul’s Episcopal Church presents its vaca-tion Bible school “Caretakers of God’s Creation” from Sunday, June 22, to Thursday, June 26. Times are 5-8 p.m. Sundays, and 5:30-8 p.m. all other days. Ages 3 and older are welcome. The church is at 10th and Garrison in Lakewood. Provided by Holy Shepherd Lutheran Church and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

MONDAY/JUNE 23

GOLF TOURNAMENT A charity golf tournament to bene� t AFA Wounded Airman Program and the local Air Force family is planned for Monday, June 23, at Heritage Eagle Bend Golf

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Stormy weather isn’t limited to outdoors

Now that I am officially starting my 19th year in Colorado, I think I am finally appreciating the finicky and unpredict-able weather that blesses us every season of every year. Maybe it’s my short or foggy memory, but I cannot seem to remember a season with more weather fluctuation since I have moved here.

I have traveled professionally and frequently since relocating here from New Jersey, so maybe 2014 is just another typical and ever-changing year here in colorful Colorado, and I’m just not used to all the seasonal changes and storms.

But, it’s really not the weather that I want to talk about today, as crazy and vol-atile as it may be. Instead, I want to focus on another topic that could be considered just as wild and sometimes as unpredict-able … our children.

As another Father’s Day has come and gone, I am reminded of the roller-coaster ride of parenting my own children over these past 25 years. My youngest will hit 20 in September, so I will officially be out of the teenage era. You know — the one where we move from being seen as smart, brave, funny, and even from time to time goofy mom or dad … to that place where children become embarrassed to be seen with us, deny our existence, and find our sense of humor less funny with each passing corny joke or request for them to pull their pants up above the waist. But I digress.

If you are a parent, a friend of parent, an outsider looking in on a parenting situation, then you know exactly what that crazy and unpredictable forecast looks like during those teenage years — don’t you? “Mostly sunny today with a chance of drama,” or “Clear skies in the morning with a lack of respect and appreciation showing up around 3 p.m.” And then there is always this one: “The wind will pick

up in the early evening, bringing with it a storm front of entitlement and selfish-ness.”

I find a certain beauty and wonder when experiencing the changes in at-titudes and behaviors of my children. It is exasperating at times, almost to the point where I’d consider quitting the job of be-ing a dad. But it is also an incredible bless-ing that keeps me on my toes, astounds me with both their exciting events and little achievements, and it fills me with pride to be a dad even in the midst of their drama, life challenges and experiences, and just every time I am blessed enough to lay my eyes upon them.

So let’s remember that crazy, wild, volatile, and unpredictable storms of life will happen. Not may happen, but will happen. And when we embrace the chaos and challenges that our children bring us, love them unconditionally anyway, our umbrella of love will get us through any storm that comes our way.

What’s your forecast looking like? I would love to hear all about it at [email protected]. And as we see our storms as blessings, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Highlands Ranch, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and the CEO/founder of www.candogo.com.

Visit the past or the future?We asked guests at Splash water park in Golden, would you rather be able to visit 100 years into the past or 100 years into the future?

“I’d travel in the future. I guess to see how the economy gets and just what the world is going to look like.”Josh Manzaneres, Denver

“The future. So I could see what my kids were going to experience and my grand kids.”Emily Borrenpophl, Littleton

“The future. The past has already been logged so we know what we’ve gone through. The future is all unknown so I think it would be pretty fascinating.”Brian Jackson, Littleton

“I’d go 100 years in the future. Technology could advance so we could be more lazy.”Alysia Chavez, Denver

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Welcoming a familiar face to a new place

It is a pleasure to welcome Drew Litton to our opinion pages beginning this week. Drew was a staple with the Rocky Moun-tain News for 26 years until it ceased publication in 2009.

Many of us kept up with him through the web, seeing his postings on Facebook and his website. A few months back, I learned Drew was moving back to the Denver area, and I reached out to him. Drew jumped at the opportunity to be printed in our 20 weekly community newspapers with 180,000 plus circulation and on our 19 websites. Drew agrees with me that the community newspaper busi-ness is the place to be due to our unique content and close connection with the communities we serve.

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Dr. Ramon Edward Bisque (Ray), 82, passed away in Blue Mountain, Colo-rado on Monday, June 9, 2014 of natural causes. Ray lived every moment to the fullest, up to his very last.

Ray grew up in Iron River, a small mining town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

He went on to earn his undergraduate degree at St. Norbert College, and advanced degrees from Iowa State University, where he met his wife, Marie Livingston Young.

After marrying in Al-gona, Iowa, Ray and Marie re-located to Colorado in 1959. A father first, he became a professor at Colorado School of Mines, an entrepreneur, an in-novator, and a writer.

Early in his career, he was the director of a cur-riculum project which involved contributors in what was arguably the most interdisciplinary gathering of geoscien-tists ever convened in the United States.

Activities from his

home base at the Colorado School of Mines earned him recogni-tion as a Fellow of the Ameri-

can Association for the Advancement of Science, a Distinguished Lecturer, and a feted Native Son in his home town.

Ramon is survived by his wife of 60 years, Marie, his six children: Camille Ford (Edward), Stephen Bisque (Colleen), Laura Tracy (Scott), Thomas Bisque, Daniel Bisque (Brenda), Matthew Bisque (Merrilee), fifteen grand-children: Jenae, Daniel, and Evan Ford, Sarah, Rebecca, Madalyn and Emily Bisque, Lorae and Stephen Tracy, William, Anna, Megan and Jona-than Bisque, Joseph and Charlotte Bisque, and his eight-month-old yellow lab, Ellie, who all reside in Denver, Colorado.

He is predeceased by his father and mother, Edward and Camilla Bisque, and his sister, Dorothy “Babe” Bisque.

The memorial service was heldon Saturday, June 14, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.

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Ella Murphy Roach, 94, died Friday, June 13, 2014 at Collier Hospice Cen-ter in Wheat Ridge, CO surrounded by her loving family.

Ella Murphy Roach was born June 11, 1920 to John and Myrtle A. (Black) Patterson near Womer in Smith Center, Kansas. She attended Lone Star rural school. June 21, 1940, Ella married Frank Murphy and they settled in Colby, Kansas. The Murphy’s owned and operated Murphy’s Café for the next 37 years.

Murphy’s Café changed hands due to health reasons and Frank and Ella moved to Denver, CO to be near family. Frank passed away March 24, 1978 and Ella chose to remain in Denver.

Ella was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church and St. Peter and Paul. She was very active in the restaurant industry in Denver and retired in 1990. She remarried, how-ever, is widowed.

Survivors include her four children, Jack Raymond Murphy and his children, Jonna Ray Cockrell, Stephanie Pugh, and Shawn Murphy; her

great-grandchildren are, Thomas Ray Pugh, Alexandra, Jackson, and Brice Cockrell and Kiela Murphy; her second son, James Patrick Murphy, and daughters Shar-ron Pizzuto, and Karen Bainter. Ella’s grandchil-dren are Lance Sloan and Raquelle Pratt. Ella’s great-grandchildren are Xavier and Brittany Sloan and Lydia and Ariel Pratt. Ella’s surviving sisters are Alberta Reeves and Thelma O’Connor both of Wichita Falls, TX.

Services will be held at Holy Family Catholic Church, Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 10am with Rev-erend Marty Lally Offici-ating with entombment to follow at the Tower Of Memories, Olinger Crown Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be held Wednesday, June 18, 2014 from 6 to 8pm with a Rosary service beginning at 7pm at Olinger Crown Hill Mortuary, 7777 W. 29th Ave., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033. Following the funeral service, all are invited to attend a recep-tion at Sharron Pizzuto’s residence located at 14891 W. 76th Drive Arvada, CO 80007.

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Ella Murphy RoachJune 11, 1920– June 13, 2014

Some snapshots from a broadMay 31: The attractive Hungarian

guide named Kristina meets my cousin, Janet, and I at the International Airport in Munich, Germany to begin our tour of Eastern Europe. At a Munich hotel, we meet 34 fellow travelers from Australia, England, Canada and the U.S. The next day our group, all of whom have signed up for Bohemian Rhapsody through Cosmos Tours, head toward Prague, Czech Republic in a “coach.” Janet and I are excited to see Eastern European cities with fascinating medieval history of kings and queens, an-cient cathedrals, and narrow cobblestone streets.

“Make sure you have coins for the toilets,” Kristina warns us. She is not kid-ding, and the experience of water closets and toilettes on the road through Bohemia is unique. A totally enclosed water closet, may be a good place to relieve yourself, but is not a happy place if you have claustro-phobia.

Our first stop is Nuremburg, Germany, where we have time for lunch. I carry a small cross body purse that holds my United States passport, and local money, a

comb, and my iPhone. Janet, whose focus is architecture, heads into St. Sebaldus Cathedral off the central square. I follow her into the medieval church, which was completed in 1275. In awe of the Roman-esque majesty of the interior, I am also struck by the singing of a choir of girls at choir practice. They sing like angels, led by an enthusiastic choir director. Transported by the organist and choir to a melding of history and magical present moment, I pluck out my iPhone and record a video with sound of the choir and the interior of the church. (The video becomes a treasure from the trip to play for friends back home. When I play it one friend says, “That gives

me goose bumps.”)Texting photos to my husband and chil-

dren back in the U.S. becomes an instant connection to the people I love. They text back, and we are in touch.

In Prague and Budapest, besides the majestic cathedrals, town squares and deli-cious goulash and homemade pasta, I am interested in how the people have survived the Soviet occupation after World War II, which I only witnessed through the news. The local guide in Prague says, “We have no religion.” My feeling is the people have a terrific history but unclear vision of the future.

On a television in a Prague hotel room, a BBC report says “The KGB has infiltrated the Prague government and the people have not adapted to freedom.” In Buda-pest, Hungary, the government, concerned about the falling birth rate is encouraging women to have babies. Our guide, Kristina is single as are many women of childbear-ing age in Eastern Europe.

After Budapest, on our way back toward Munich, we have a free day in Vienna, Austria. I choose to spend the hot morning

in the air conditioned Vienna Art Museum, home of the Habsburg’s amazing collec-tion. A solid ivory horse with a rider who represents the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire receiving a crown astounds me because of the luminescence of the mate-rial, and the of a time it represents. On my iPhone, I text a photo of a brilliantly col-ored painting of Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene to my husband, Dick. He texts back, “Love it.”

So what you have here are a few notes from an intrepid traveler. I have been home only three days now and am still waking up, my internal clock messed up — when my eyes flutter open I gaze at the ceiling of the bedroom and wonder what European hotel room I’m in, then after a few moments recognize something in the bedroom and realize I’m home.

Mary Stobie is finishing her memoir of the last forty years of her best newspaper columns, and early stories about rodeo, Hollywood, family. Contact her with your comments about your travels or any other subjects at [email protected]

Breaking out the elements of learning“I do think there’s a good framework for thinking. It is

physics. You know, the sort of first principles reasoning … boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there”—Elon Musk.

What is the first principle, the fundamental truth of public education? When it all started, way back with John Dewey, the fundamental truth was that public education was to create a workforce that could manage an emerging industrial economy. That’s why schools look a little bit too much like factories for most peoples’ tastes. That philosophy, that cooker-cutter approach, has driven public education ever since.

In between then and now, we’ve had other emphases, but, with the brief and unfortunate exception of the “self-es-teem” movement of the early 90s, we have always worked on the premise that schools can and should churn out students that have an identical core set of skills and competencies. But that century-long habit denies the very real, fundamen-tal truth that every student who walks through our doors is different than the one next to them.

This really hasn’t been that big of a deal, for the most part. The culture accepted children’s different skill levels, and as-similated them in where they could fit best, be that college, or a trade, or service. That which a student did not get in school was either not necessary or could be imparted later.

But in the past 15 or twenty years, the culture seems to have shifted. It is almost ridiculous to assume that a school can adequately prepare students for the world they are finding themselves in. The sum total of everything we know doubles now every five years; a sign at Denver International Airport announces that 9 of the top 10 jobs in 2020 don’t ex-ist right now, and that seems about right; and once a school gets the okay to purchase new technology, by the time it’s actually in the school in use, it’s two generations behind what most students have in their pockets already, in the form of their smart phones.

We can’t keep up, and it’s a fool’s errand to try. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing we can do. Let me come at it this way: as a personal trainer, one thing I am conscious of is that people who seek help to prepare for a specific event tend to be people who get injured most often. That’s because they want to do specific work that is related to the event, without doing the more mundane tasks associated with becoming generally strong. So they take a weakened body and fabulous intentions, put it through a grueling workout that sometimes specifically targets a single muscle group or motion, and then wonder why they get tendonitis or pulled muscles. You have to become functionally fit before you

narrow your training down to a specific event.

Our job in public education, it would seem to me, needs to start catering more to “functional brain fitness.” It would be great, in my opinion, if our first principle was “make every child’s brain as strong as it can be.” Focus our efforts, not on facts, data and testing, but on facility, processes and breadth.

That’s why I chose to highlight, in last week’s column, the fact that students in Finland have more recess time than Americans: it’s good for the development of the brain.

Our arguments, the great dramas of the education world, of which Jefferson County now seems to be ground zero, frequently strike me as duels to the death about the location of the deck chairs on the Titanic. If we’re going to have such personal, vitriolic and nasty arguments, can we please do it about first principles? That might give us a chance to “reason up,” which, in turn, might give us a chance to both build a better school, and look like adults while we’re doing it.

Michael Alcorn is a music teacher and fitness instructor who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. He graduated from Alameda High School and the University of Colorado-Boulder.

I gave Drew no real direction in terms of the topics he will draw. For the most part, expect it to be sports related as he has done in the past.

His work will give us a better understanding of how many of us feel about a topic. One drawing and a few words can often trigger our brains to reflect and think about Drew’s position on a topic. Some will connect, others not. But the goal of any good cartoonist like Drew is for readers to think, smile, learn and yes, even ponder.

Bringing Drew onto our opinion pages will do just that. Welcome to our newspapers and websites, Drew. Count me in as someone looking forward to seeing your work here in Colorado again on a more regular basis.

— Jerry Healey, publisher


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TUESDAY/JUNE 24

ART LEAGUE The Wheat Ridge Art League will meet 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, at the Active Adult Center, 6363 W. 35th Ave., Wheat Ridge. After the business meeting, well-known artist Anita Winter will present a watercolor painting demonstration. Anyone who lives in the Denver metro area is welcome

to attend. The league is celebrating its 40-year anniversary with a reception/show 6-9 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at the Teller Street Gallery/Studios, 7190 W. 38th Ave., Wheat Ridge. Contact [email protected] or [email protected], or 303-278-8247 or 303-421-1356.

TUESDAY/JUNE 24

DIVIDED FAMILIES How families expe-riencing con� ict and division can heal will be discussed at Lifetree Café at noon and 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, at 5675 Field St., Arvada. “A Family Divided: Finding Peace by Letting Go” features the � lmed story of a family that struggled with an unwanted teenage pregnancy. Lifetree participants will consider lessons the family learned as they worked through their response to the pregnancy. Admission is free. Contact Polly Wegner at 303-424-4454 or [email protected].

WEDNESDAY/JUNE 25

JAZZ SHOW Join Marti Henry on trombone and his swinging friends from Jazz Over Easy from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, June 25, at Café Del Sol, 608 Garrison St., Lakewood. Call 303-238-7999 for reserva-tions and more information.

THURSDAY/JUNE 26

FIGHT CANCER LUMC Optimist Club and White Fence Farm have teamed up to help � ght childhood cancer. From 4:30-8 p.m. Thursday, June 26, White Fence Farm will donate 15 percent of meal tickets marked “CCC” (ask your wait sta� to mark your bill). White Fence Farm is at 6263 W. Jewell Ave., Lakewood.

FRIDAY/JUNE 27

BLOOD DRIVE Evergreen Library blood drive, 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, June 27, inside the Bloodmobile at 5000 Highway 73, Evergreen. Contact Bon� ls Appointment Center at 303-363-2300 or visit bon� ls.org.

TUESDAY/JUNE 28

ART LEAGUE The Wheat Ridge Art

League will have a show and reception 6-9 p.m. June 28 at the Teller Street Gal-lery and Studio, 7190 W. 38th Ave., Wheat Ridge. The art league is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Call 303-278-8247 or 303-421-1356 or email [email protected] or [email protected].

SATURDAY/JUNE 28

ADVANCING YOGA Experienced, intermediate and advanced students and teachers who can kick to handstand at the wall and perform upward bow (Urdhva Dhanurasana) are invited to advancing yoga from 1-3 p.m. Saturdays from June 28 to July 12 at PranaTonic, 807 14th St., Golden. Register at www.PranaTonic.com.

SATURDAY/JUNE 28

GARDEN TOUR Wander through six beautiful Arvada residential gardens 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at the Arvada Historical Society’s fourth annual garden tour. Tours of the Delva Com-munity Garden at the Wellhouse also are included. Tickets available at the Arvada Flour Mill, 5590 Olde Wadsworth, starting at 8:30 a.m. the day of the tour. Dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes. Strollers and pets are not allowed in the gardens. Call Mary Jo at 303-421-2032.

SATURDAY AND Sunday/June 28-29

BEACH PARTY Sand in the City, featur-ing sand sculptures built by residents and businesses, live music, craft breweries, local retail and food vendors, a Kid Zone and VIP beach party area, is 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 28-29 at Ralston Park, Arvada. Contact Ashley Garst, Arvada Chamber of Commerce, [email protected]. Go to http://visitarvada.org/events/sand-in-the-city/festival/

COMING SOONMONDAY/JUNE 30

GOLF OUTING The Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce plans a golf outing

7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, June 30, at Hiwan Golf Club, 30671 Clubhouse Lane, Evergreen. The scramble format tournament is ideal for beginner and experienced golfers. Register at http://coloradowomenschamber.chambermas-ter.com/events.

SATURDAY/JULY 5

PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB Forney Museum of Transportation presents Photography Club Saturdays. Build your portfolio with uninterrupted tripod photography time among antique cars. Sessions are o� ered the � rst Saturday of the month. Come for two hours before we open to the public. Registration required. Sessions limited to 25 participants. For a copy of the museum’s photo policy, including rules and regulations, email [email protected] or call 303-297-1113. 2014 dates are May 3, June 7, July 5, Aug. 2, Sept. 6, Oct. 4, Nov. 1, Dec. 6. The museum is at 4303 Brighton Blvd., Denver.

SATURDAY AND Sunday/July 5-6

HEALTH FAIR VegFest Colorado, a health and environmental fair is open 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 5, and Sunday, July 6, at the Je� erson County Fairgrounds, 15200 W 6th Ave., Golden. Activities include speakers, cooking demonstrations, food samples, exhibits, food trucks, movies and more. Go to www.vegfestcolorado.org.

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THROUGH SUNDAY/JUNE 29

THE GRADUATE The Edge Theater presents “The Graduate” Monday, June 6, to Sunday, June 29, at 1560 Teller St., Suite 200, Lakewood. For tickets, contact 303-232-0363 or online at www.theed-getheater.com. For mature audiences only; no one under 17 admitted.

THROUGH JULY 14

THEATER CAMPS Colorado ACTS pres-ents several summer production classes. Students will perform two or three times.

To learn more, or to register, call 303-456-6772, email [email protected] or go to www.coloradoacts.org.

THROUGH JULY 29

QUILTING EXHIBIT Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum presents “Quilting; Past, Present and Future,” by the Front Range Contemporary Quilt Guild, from Thursday, May 1, to Tuesday, July 29, at 1213 Washington Ave., Golden. An opening reception is 5-8:30 p.m. Friday, May 2. Call 303-277-0377.

LOOKING AHEADMONDAY/JULY 7; Aug. 4

LED LIGHT Higher Mind Healing is o� ering free LED light sessions 4-7 p.m. Monday July 7 and Aug. 4 at Soul Treasures, 5752 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. To register or for information, call Joey Miller at 303-948-8175 or go to www.highermindhealing.net.

TUESDAY/JULY 8

WOMEN’S LUNCHEON Denver West Women’s Connection presents its Star Spangled luncheon noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, at Concordia Lutheran Church, 13371 W. Alameda Parkway, Lakewood. RSVP at 303-985-2458. Come with a purse with purse-onality.

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Tomorrow morning, when you wake up, everything will be changed.

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Every morning, the breeze from the gulf woke everyone up, telling them it was time to start the day in the fields beneath the hot Texas sun. Just like every other day, it was time to work and work some more – but there was one day when everything was different, though nobody knew it at first.

And then someone told someone else on the edge of the gulf. And that someone took the word to town, and told friends. The friends were so happy that they spread the message around the country. The news was like a wave in the ocean and pretty soon, everyone in the fields knew – and they were happy.

They knew that “a Union general had read from a balcony” that everyone was free – not just now, but “forever.” From that minute forward, nothing would be like it was the day before. Everything would “be all different now.”

People sang their happiness with faces raised. Others – those who didn’t think they’d ever see it – cried tears of joy. Some could hardly believe that day had come and they “whispered things” to one another.

Since nobody was being forced to work in the fields that day, they all went to the beach for a picnic by the water. Even the sand was changed. Dancing felt new. Food tasted different for those who were free for the first time. Even stories sounded sweeter. And at the end of the day, it was especially nice to walk next to cotton fields that didn’t demand work. It was nice to go to bed, knowing that the next morning and every one after that, the sun would wake everyone up and nothing would ever be the same…

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Editor’s note: This is the last of a three-part series.

Danielle Nordeen drives a 16-year-old Toyota Camry that doesn’t handle well on snowy mountain passes. In January, Nordeen had to make the drive from her home in Grand Junc-tion to Pueblo often enough that she developed a strategy: Find a semi with its hazard lights on and follow it closely, prompting the other drivers to direct their wrath toward the trucker rather than her.

A 300-mile solo drive across the state in winter can be stressful under the best circumstances, but Nordeen’s reason for making the drive twice a week for three weeks was devastating: She was visiting her son in a psychiat-ric ward, after he lashed out at school and later threatened to kill himself and staff at a crisis-stabilization cen-ter.

Her son is 7.Across the state, the same story

plays out. A shortage of treatment options for people with mental ill-nesses means waiting months to see a psychiatrist, or driving hundreds of miles for a psychiatric bed. Police and emergency rooms bear the brunt of a splintered system that juggles crises, but falls short on treatment.

The questions that swirled af-ter the brutal massacre at an Aurora movie theater in 2012 are the same ones that followed Jared Loughner’s attack on Gabrielle Giffords and her staff in 2011. They came even louder after the Newtown Elementary School killings in Connecticut. They circulate privately after suicides. The signs of mental illness and the threats were apparent: Why didn’t anyone inter-vene?

Medical professionals and advo-cates cite a combination of barriers: Adults have the right to refuse inter-vention. Parents are often reluctant to call 911, when it can mean that their children are cuffed by police. Schools, employers and hospitals are too quick to say it’s not their problem. Acquain-tances and friends feel ill-equipped to act.

“We regularly hear people say things like, ‘I knew something was wrong, but I didn’t know what to do,’” says Carl Clark, who heads the Mental Health Center of Denver, which coun-sels workplaces after suicides.

In response to the mass shooting in Aurora, the state recently passed a law that expands the duty of therapists to warn of threats against an institu-tion like a school or theater, not just

against a person. A plan for new crisis centers in Colorado — while stalled — is intended to relieve the burden on first responders.

Legal improvements, better edu-cation and increased capacity “don’t guarantee that bad things won’t hap-pen,” says Clark. “But we’re going to decrease the likelihood it’s going to happen.”

Routine care can also be hard to come by, particularly in rural ar-eas where psychiatrist shortages are acute.

“There are people saying there’s something going wrong and I have to get treatment,” says Clark. When treatment isn’t immediately available,

Danielle Nordeen, right, plays a board game with her 7-year-old son at their Grand Junction home on Monday afternoon, April 14. In January, Nordeen’s son was sent to a psychiatric ward hundreds of miles from their home, after he lashed out at school and later threatened to kill himself and staff at a crisis-stabilization center. A shortage of treatment options for people with mental illnesses means waiting months to see a psychiatrist, or driving across the state for a psychiatric bed. Photo by Rocky Mountain PBS I-News

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For some people who live with mental illnesses and their families, efforts to make intervention easier can miss the point. They want help, they say. What they need is more support for treatment and recovery in the communities where they live.

Jennifer Hill, who man-ages a mental-health ad-vocacy organization called the Colorado Mental Well-ness Network and has per-sonal experience with re-covering from illness, says that recovery is stymied by a system that can seem to offer being locked up or nothing.

“You’re in or you’re out,” Hill says.

Better treatment re-quires more than an infu-sion of resources and im-proved access, says Hill. People won’t sign up for treatment that isn’t thera-peutic.

“It’s treating people with dignity and respect,” says Hill, “and not treating them like they’re dangerous and horrible people.”

More court ordersThe other second-grad-

ers have watched the police take Danielle Nordeen’s son away in handcuffs before.

The latest crisis was set off when one of the other children reminded him of that very fact. The 7-year-old tore posters from the wall, kicked and hit the teachers, flooded the toi-

lets. The Grand Junction elementary school went on lockdown.

Nordeen showed up to find her boy rolling around in dirty water in the bath-room.

When a local crisis cen-ter placed him on an emer-gency psychiatric hold for his threats, only Parkview Hospital in Pueblo had a bed available. Nordeen works a low-wage job in Grand Junction, and had to return to work after leaving him there, or risk losing her apartment.

“I literally just felt like I was dropping him off and walking away,” says Nor-deen, holding back tears, “which as a mom, that’s the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”

The number of people placed into involuntary mental-health treatment has jumped in recent years. Court filings show a 35 per-cent jump in 72-hour holds, short- and long-term certi-fications, and other court-ordered treatment between fiscal years 2009 and 2013. Mental health providers re-ported 31,317 emergency mental-health holds in fis-cal year 2013, according to state officials, a 21 percent increase from just a year earlier.

But the growing de-mand for beds hasn’t been met by an increase in avail-ability. Instead, the options for low-income Coloradans in particular have shrunk as beds at the two state psychiatric hospitals have closed. In 2014, the state mental health institutes at Fort Logan and Pueblo have 553 beds, down from 734 in 2000.

All told, there are only

1,093 inpatient psychiatric beds in all hospitals around the state, according to the state Department of Hu-man Services, around 20 percent fewer than five years ago. That’s about 21 beds for every 100,000 Col-oradans, among the lowest rates in the U.S.

The state is in the pro-cess of evaluating what services might be lacking across its various regions. In part, says Dr. Patrick Fox, an official with the state Office of Behavioral Health, the hope is that private-sector psychiatric hospitals will meet some of the need. He gave the example of Clear View Behavioral Health, which broke ground in April on a 92-bed hospital east of

Loveland expected to open in 2015.

For now, hospital ad-ministrators and fam-ily members describe large geographic swaths of scar-city. In Grand Junction, West Springs Hospital is the only psychiatric hospi-tal between Salt Lake City and Denver. The hospital, which has 32 beds, opened in 2005, at the same time as neighboring St. Mary’s Hospital closed its inpa-tient psychiatric beds.

Like other private-sector hospitals across the state, St. Mary’s found that pro-viding psychiatric services on top of other medical ser-vices was too costly. Even after closing its psychiatric department, the hospital absorbs about $300,000 in

unreimbursed expenses each year related to provid-ing mental-health services, says Dan Prinster, the hos-pital’s vice president for business development.

Now, West Springs finds that it’s often filled to ca-pacity, and has to turn peo-ple away. Kim Boe, the hos-pital’s vice president, says the wait list generally hov-ers between six and eight people each day.

Most not violentThe vast majority of

people with mental illness-es are not violent, but those who are receive more than their fair share of head-lines and news broadcasts. The rate of violence among people with severe men-

tal illnesses ranges from 8 percent for those receiving outpatient treatment to 37 percent among patients in the throes of their first epi-sode of psychosis, accord-ing to a research review by Jeffrey Swanson, a Duke University psychiatry pro-fessor whose work on the issue is widely cited.

Suicide has a much closer tie with mental ill-ness. More than 90 percent of those who take their own lives have depression or another mental disorder, or a substance abuse issue, according to one epidemi-ological study cited by the National Institute of Men-tal Health.


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Much of the demand for psychiatric beds comes from people who pose a dan-ger to themselves. The scarcity can make an already precarious situation even more traumatizing.

Grand Junction resident Rebecca Ed-wards has had a long history of mental ill-ness, including depression, and has been through the whole gamut of available care. After she was administered electro-convul-sive therapy a few years ago at Porter Hos-pital, she didn’t recognize the symptoms of a stroke that permanently affected her speech. She thought she was experiencing the side effects of shock therapy.

Edwards says she’s grateful for the men-tal health treatment that has allowed her to live in the community, supported by her peers. But when the stress of moving to an assisted-living situation last July sent her into a deep depression, she needed more intensive treatment.

What she got instead was a disorienting ride across the mountains with strangers in the middle of the night. Placed in an in-voluntary mental-health hold because she was suicidal, Edwards was handcuffed. She landed at a hospital in Colorado Springs.

“I felt very afraid, very alone,” says Ed-wards. “When you get taken away from that support, it’s hard to deal with. It made me feel a lot more hopeless, like I was alone in my struggle with depression.”

Boarding in ERIf people at the receiving end of fl awed

mental-health services feel frustrated, it’s a feeling often shared by those at the giving end.

Matt Skwiot is an emergency room doc-tor at Grand River Hospital in Rifl e, an oil and gas town between Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction with a population of less than 10,000. He sees workers injured by explosions, car accident victims, elderly people with broken hips

And like other ERs, this one has become a holding pen for people in a psychiatric crisis.

About once a week at Grand River Hos-pital, there’s just no psychiatric facility available to take a patient. So a room in the ER is cleared of equipment with cords and other tools that could be used in a suicide attempt. Security is called, and a camera is monitored.

For as long as three days, the patients are kept alone in the room. None of them see a psychiatrist, says Skwiot. And then, once they’re stable, they’re sent home.

“You’re trying to provide a safe place, you’re trying to provide the best care that you can,” says Skwiot. But ER doctors don’t have the training or skills to give people the therapy and other support they need.

“If it was me locked up in this room for 72 hours, with minimal interaction, mini-mal stimulation, I’m already depressed and suicidal, that seems like it … would make things worse,” Skwiot says.

Before the violenceOn a sunny Monday in April two months

after her son came back from the hospital

in Pueblo, Nordeen was playing with him at a park behind their home. The gap-toothed kid was affectionate and energetic, alter-nately asking for and receiving hugs from his mom, and shouting captain’s orders in a game of pirates.

Things were calm and happy. But Nor-deen felt like the family was in a holding pattern. Her son was out of school, with a psychiatrist’s note saying that school’s stresses would be too much for him. Nor-deen was apprehensive about sending him back, and worried about the future.

“What’s scary,” says Nordeen, “is that who’s to say he’s not going to be one of those kids that follows through on his threats?”

Echoing complaints of people in similar situations, she says she can’t fi nd the sup-port she needs.

“I almost feel like I’ve exhausted every option in Grand Junction,” says Nordeen. “Because there’s not a lot of options avail-able.”

Community-based mental health treat-ment and support is chronically under-funded, mental health advocates say. An analysis by Rocky Mountain PBS I-News found that overall funding for mental health in the state hasn’t kept up with in-fl ation since the 1980s. A well-intentioned push to remove people from institutional-ized care led to the closing of state psychi-atric hospital beds, but equal attention was never given to creating a replacement.

As a result, community mental health services continue to defer to fi rst respond-ers and emergency services when the threat of violence looms.

In Colorado Springs, the mother of An-

thony Martinez says she has struggled for years to help her son get adequate treat-ment for schizophrenia. When he’s stable, Martinez, 34, is good-natured and loving. When he’s not, he can be violent. He’s been in and out of the state hospital in Pueblo, and sometimes jail, for years.

In August, Martinez was released from the state psychiatric hospital to live with his mother, along with his sister, her hus-band and their two young children. The family was told that no other place — in-cluding group homes — would take him.

The state hospital said they couldn’t discuss a patient’s case, said Dan Drayer, spokesman for the state Department of Human Services. He said that Martinez was not available for an interview.

In November, the family called 911 after Martinez threatened a family friend. When he returned home, they consulted with a community mental health center, express-ing fears about their safety.

They were told to call the police again if they felt unsafe.

By January, Martinez was holding a large kitchen knife up to his mother’s face, threatening to kill her. With coaxing, Mar-tinez laid down his knife, and was taken back to the state hospital.

The experience left Martinez’s mother, Patty Blakney, shaken and angry that her son had been discharged from the hospital while he was still unstable.

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coMMunity coffEE Join Rep. Tracy Kraft-Tharp on the fourth Thursday of each month to talk about issues that are important to you. Community Coffee will be from 7-8 a.m. at La Dolce Vita, Ice Cream Room, 5756 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada; and from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Panera Bread, 10450 Town Center Drive, Westminster.

invEstors’ MEEtings The Rocky Mountain Inventors Association meets 6:30-8:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of every month (excluding November and December) at Vesta Technol-ogy, 13050 W. 43rd Drive, Suite 300, Golden. Presentations in marketing, manufacturing, engineering, finance, business and legal, followed by networking. Go online to www.rminventor.org for details.

rocky Mountain Team Survivor, a health, education and fitness program for women of all abilities who have experi-enced cancer or are currently in treatment, offers weekly free, fun, supportive activities. Tuesdays, 10 a.m., Boulder Creek Walk (meet at Boulder Public Library main entrance). Tuesday, 11-11:30 a.m., Yoga, Boulder Senior Center, 909 Arapahoe Av-enue. Thursdays, 6-7 p.m., Fitness Training, Boulder Center for Sports Medicine, 311 Mapleton Avenue (entrance on Maxwell Avenue.). Learn more at rockymtn-teamsurvivor.org.

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calMup JournEy Prefer to help yourself rather than do the coaching or psychotherapy thing? Let me share with you free information about the CalmUp Journey, a one-page self-examination worksheet for men and women. Join me for coffee or tea from 8-9 a.m. most Fridays at Whole Foods Market Belmar, 444 S. Wadsworth Blvd. in Lakewood. Let me know you’re planning to be there so we’re sure to connect. Contact www.DrLorieGose.com or 303-500-2340.

goldEn gatE Community Grange, 25201 Golden Gate Canyon Road, has meetings at 7 p.m. the second Friday of the month. Activities include yoga, dances, eggmania, special wildlife programs, holiday craft fair. Grange hall available for rental for weddings, parties, reunions, etc. Call Rich Phillips at 303-277-1933 or go to www.goldengategrange.com. New members welcome.

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colorado citizEns for Peace meets from 10:30-11:30 a.m. every Saturday at the intersections of West 52nd and Wadsworth Boulevard to try to bring an end to the wars. Signs will be furnished for those who do not have them. Contact Cindy Lowry at 303-431-1228 or [email protected].

MEditation classEs Various styles of meditation will be explored from 9:30-10:30 a.m. each Saturday at PranaTonic, 807 14th St., Golden. We’ll begin with a short introduction to meditation and what to expect followed by a meditation period of 30-40 minutes and time at the end for group discus-sion. Call 303-274-5733. Visit www.PranaTonic.com.

rocky Mountain Shipwrights is a wood ship model-ing club that meets at 9:30 a.m. the third Saturday of each month at Rockler’s Woodworking and Hardware Store, 2553 S. Colorado Blvd. in Denver. The club also has a workshop at the Arvada City Hall, 8101 Ralston Road. We meet here at 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the first Saturday of each month. Go to www.rockymountainshipwrights.org for information.

sundays

frEE Waltz/polka lessons Polka Lover Klubs, Denver Kickers, 16776 W. 50th Ave. in Golden, meets from 3-7 p.m. Sundays. Live music. Beautiful dance floor. Admission $4 mem-bers, $6 nonmembers. Annual membership $15. Contact Leo at 720-232-0953 or [email protected].

ongoing /Education

discussion groups Covenant Village hosts Wednesdays at 2 p.m. This series of monthly events features expert speakers on a wide variety of educational and entertaining topics. Please plan to attend one, several or all of our programs, held at 9153 Yarrow St. in Westminster. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Call 303-403-2205 for driving directions and to reserve your place. Come early for refreshments; fellowship lectures begin at 2 p.m. To learn more about the residency options and lifestyle at Covenant Village of Colorado, call us at 303-424-4828.

Esl classEs — Covenant Presbyterian Church, 6100 W. 44th St. in Wheat Ridge, is sponsoring a free series of English as a Second Language classes for adults 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday nights. These classes will emphasize a conversational method of instruction. Beginner through advanced classes are offered. You may register on any Thursday night. For directions or more information, call the church at 410-442-5800 or go to our website at www.cpcwheatridge.org.

ongoing /finE arts and EntErtainMEntconcordia luthEran Church Choir meets at 7 p.m. Wednesdays. The choir assists in Concordia’s traditional wor-ship service three out of four Sundays per month. The church is at 13371 W. Alameda Parkway in Lakewood (the church nestled close to Green Mountain). If you have a desire to sing and are interested in joining, please contact Joan at [email protected] or 303-989-5260.

dancE club — Blue Nova Dance Club meets 2:30-4:30 p.m. on the first and third Sundays every month at the Wheat Ridge Grange, 3850 High Court in Wheat Ridge. For more information


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June 19, 2014

Van Dyken-Rouen out of intensive careOlympic hero has long road to recovery but remains positiveBy Daniel [email protected]

ENGLEWOOD – Her positivity after a tragic accident is something that is almost more unbelievable than her recovery.

But that is probably what helped make Amy Van Dyken-Rouen the Olympic hero that she is today.

Just one week after Van Dyken-Rouen severed her spine in an accident while rid-ing an ATV, she is in good spirits and got good news as she has been moved out of

intensive care to a regular hospital room.“My first transfer to a wheelchair is

complete. I was boot scooting all over the halls,” Van Dyken-Rouen said in a cap-tioned of a photo of herself she posted on Instagram.

The former world-class swimmer made her first move out of her hospital bed on Saturday and shared a picture of it on her Instagram account.

Van Dyken-Rouen said she is keeping a positive attitude as she plans to do her re-habilitation at Craig Rehabilitation Hospi-tal in Englewood, a hospital specializes in spinal cord injuries.

The 41-year-old Van Dyken-Rouen was paralyzed after hitting a curb and being ejected off her ATV in a restaurant parking lot, falling over a drop-off between five and

seven feet.Tom Rouen, Amy’s husband and for-

mer Denver Broncos punter, immediately came to his wife’s aid, and said she was not breathing when he found her.

Luckily, an off-duty paramedic found the two and his assistance helped save Van Dyken-Rouen’s life.

The paramedic whose name is un-known had a chance to reunite with Van Dyken-Rouen on Friday as he paid the six-time gold-medalist a visit in the hospital.

Van Dyken-Rouen posted a picture of the pair on Instagram and this caption: “I did Crossfit with this man the day of my ac-cident. Later that night HE saved my life as my first responder. #MyAngel.”

Since the accident Van Dyken-Rouen has shared the struggles that she has gone

through on Instagram and Twitter. And one thing that she has obviously not done is feel sorry for herself.

Van Dyken-Rouen has remained in-credibly positive, despite the fact that she may remain paralyzed. But then again, to be a six-time gold medalist you have to be a ridiculously motivated individual.

Always a competitor, she posted this message to her dad who is also in a wheel-chair on Sunday: “Happy Father’s Day to the best dad ever! Now we can have wheel-chair races.”

Van Dyken-Rouen, a Colorado State University alum, won six goal medals, with four of those coming in the 1996 Olympics, making her the first American woman to accomplish the feat.

Jeffco honors elite athletes, coaches in 2013-2014Ralston Valley, D’Evelyn both win Freddie Steinmark AwardBy Daniel [email protected]

LAKEWOOD – Another prep season is in the books and as usual student athletes and coaches in Jefferson County left their mark on another outstanding sports season.

Last week Jeffco Schools honored its 2013-14 outstanding student athletes and coaches for their commitment to educa-tion, excellence and sportsmanship with district athletic awards.

The Paul Davis Sportsmanship Award was given to Columbine (5A) and Ever-green (4A) high schools. The award symbol-izes former Green Mountain High School’s Coach Paul Davis’ philosophy that athletics is an integral part of an overall educational program, recognizing traits like honesty, fair play, cooperation, competitive spirit and re-spect.

Ralston Valley (5A) and D’Evelyn (4A) high schools were awarded the Fred Stein-mark Award. Symbolizing athletic excel-lence, the annual award is given to the Jef-fco league schools with the best male and female overall record in varsity sports.

Ralston Valley has claimed the 5A award for five straight years. It’s the third consecu-tive honor for D’Evelyn.

“I’m most proud, after all these years, that in Jeffco we continue the traditions of honoring the fundamental values of good sportsmanship, great coaching and overall success of our student-athletes,” Executive Director of Athletics and Activities Jim Thy-fault said. “We often find that the individu-als and schools who receive these awards are leaders in many aspects of our school communities.”

Three-sport athlete Ty McGee of D’Evelyn and track star Payton Miller of Golden High School received the 4A Jeffco Athletes of the Year.

Three-time state wrestling champion P.T. Garcia of Bear Creek High School and three-sport athlete Sierra Galbreath of Ralston Valley were the 5A Jeffco Athletes of the Year winners.

Coach of the Year awards were given to Pomona High School cross-country coach Steve Urban, Lakewood High School girls basketball coach Chris Poisson and Ever-green football coach Rob Molholm and

Dawg Bowl IV this SaturdayIconic commentator Peter McNab will announce gamesBy Daniel [email protected]

LITTLETON – The “Dawgs” just landed a big fish to announce their games.

The Dawg Nation Hockey Foundation announced on Thursday that the Dawg Bowl IV Survivors Game, which benefits adult hockey players facing catastrophic illness or injury, will have Peter McNab on hand to the announcing at the Dawg Bowl IV Survivors Game.

The game will be Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Edge Ice Arena in Littleton. But this isn’t just any hockey game. The Survivors Game

features players and referees who have sur-vived cancer or other illness or injury in their lifetime.

The game has been described as “one of the most inspirational events” in the area and has rapidly gained popularity year af-ter year.

The tournament is one of the largest adult hockey tourneys in Colorado with 36 adult teams in 7 divisions (men and wom-en). There will be food, live entertainment, a “Kids Zone” and special guest appear-ances on hand.

And in addition former NHL player and current Colorado Avalanche broadcaster Peter McNab will be on hand to announce the games.

McNab begins his 14th season as the Colorado Avalanche’s television color ana-lyst and is a mainstay in the hockey com-

munity.McNab began his broadcasting career

for the New Jersey Devils — who were once the Colorado Rockies before moving to New Jersey — during the 1987-88 season with SportsChannel, which won an Emmy that year for broadcasting excellence.

After eight years on the New Jersey air-waves, McNab headed to Colorado for the inaugural season of the Colorado Ava-lanche.

According to their press release, Dawg Nation Hockey Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the spirit of fellowship via recreational hockey competition, supporting players and play-er’s families in high standards of health, wellness, and fair play and supporting league and team players in local commu-nity outreach.

Ralston Valley girls soccer team fans cheered their team on this year, as the Mustangs battled their way to a state runner-up finish. Photo by Daniel Williams

Ralston Valley’s winning RecoRd

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Five from Green Mountain make All-State Team Pair from Wheat Ridge and D’Evelyn also selected By Daniel Williams [email protected]

LAKEWOOD – While 5A’s All-State Team certainly didn’t feature near enough Jeffco players, the 4A team is packed with Jeffco talent.

After drama fi lled state tournaments in nearly every classifi cation, the 2014 All-State Team was fi nally announced on Wednesday.

The 4A All-State Team, both First Team and Second Team, have eight total repre-sentatives from Jeffco, including 2014 4A Player of the Year Green Mountain junior Josh Ramirez.

Ramirez was not only one of the Rams’ best hitters but he was also perhaps the state’s best pitcher going 11-3 with a 3.62 ERA.

Ramirez was the straw that stirred the drink and the main force behind Green Mountain’s run to their 4A state title. He and four of his teammates were selected for the team.

Green Mountain sophomore Wyatt Featherston and junior’s Talon Schaller and Cole Shetterly joined Ramirez on the All-State First Team.

And senior Justin Akiyama was chosen to be on the second team. Akiyama not only had a monster stat line that consisted of having a .396 batting average, 36 hits (team leader), 21 RBI and eight doubles, but also his legendary bases-loaded full-count at bat in the bottom of the seventh inning against Durango in the state play-offs that eventually led to a walk-off game-

winning hit, which will be remembered forever.

Also joining the fi ve Green Mountain players from Jeffco is Wheat Ridge senior Nick Ricigliano.

Ricigliano had one of the best statistical seasons in the state featuring a .456 batting average, 26 hits, 27 RBI, 27 runs scored and six home runs. He also went 2-0 with a 4.20 ERA for the Farmers.

D’Evelyn had one representative on the 4A All-State Team as junior Grant Wither-spoon was selected for the Second Team. Witherspoon is not only one of Jeffco’s best hoopsters but he also proved himself as one of the state’s best baseball players this season, hitting seven home runs, 28 hits, 26 RBI and scoring 30 runs.

5A’s All-State Team featured just two Jef-fco players, despite 5A Jeffco being consid-ered the best league in the state this sea-son.

Columbine senior Austin Anderson and Chatfi eld junior Kyle Winkler were selected to make the Second Team.

5A’s Player of the Year honor went to Rocky Mountain’s Carl Stajduhar.

The All-State teams honor the best play-ers in the sport as judged by the leagues and coaches. These teams were created following a lengthy process which includ-ed nominations from leagues and coaches, and then a vote of coaches.

Players of the year were also selected by a vote of the coaches.

In other local sports news:Faith Christian had three different play-

ers represented on the 2014 3A All-State Team.

Junior Luke Bote and senior Tristan Ortega were both selected as First Team-ers and senior Josh Mihalcin was chosen to join the Second Team.

D’Aurio, Sandstrom compete to become assessor Ballots must be turned in by June 24 By Amy Woodward [email protected]

When voters open up their ballot, grant-ed there will be a few or more who are not aware of what a county assessor does. An assessor is responsible for assessing prop-erty values and compiling a list of all real and private property with the exception of schools, churches and charity properties. It is up to the assessor to fi nd a fair mar-ket value that calculates a property owner’s fair share of taxes.

Jeffco County Assessor Jim Everson will be stepping aside as his term comes to a close. Competition for his position in the Republican primary race is Lou D’Aurio, deputy county assessor and Ron Sand-strom, business owner and tax consultant for property owners.

In the last 34 years, Sandstrom has fo-

cused on handling disputes with the Jef-fco Assessor’s Offi ce as well as serving on a number of taxation legislative committees and writing tax bills for property.

“I know the tax law on property very well,” Sandstrom said. “I feel I know the taxpayer because having worked with the taxpayer I can understand where the tax payer is coming from,” he said. “I am not coming from the side of sitting in the as-sessor’s offi ce and looking at it from a gov-ernment side, I am looking at it from an individual side.”

Sandstrom has successfully resolved property tax valuation issues in Adams, Boulder, Broomfi eld, Clear Creek, Delta, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, Mesa, Mon-trose, Rio Grande and Weld counties, ac-cording to his web site. If elected, Sand-strom said he would like to mend problems at the assessor’s offi ce such as record keep-ing and speeding up the hearing process for disputes which is part of his initiative

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girls swimming coach Jeanne Godaire.

Ralston Valley foot-ball coach Bill Coffey and

cross-country coach Mor-gan Thyfault from Ralston Valley, Evergreen football coach Keith Molholm and Wheat Ridge High School girls soccer Kendra Go-thard received Assistant Coaches of the Year.

“Every year, it is a dif-

fi cult process to single out the top Jeffco athletes and coaches,” said Thyfault. “We have so many who are capable of winning these awards. It speaks to the quality of student-athletes and coaches we have with-in our high schools.”


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All-State soccer team is Ralston Valley heavy Mustangs players honored a� er epic run at state title By Daniel Williams [email protected]

ARVADA – Ralston Valley girls’ soc-cer thrilled us with a remarkable run that ended in the state championship game.

And now that their season is over, four different Mustangs were hon-ored as a part of the 2014 All-State Soccer Team.

Ralston Valley sophomores Alyssa Kaiser and Emma Musson were both selected as members of the 5A All-State First Team.

While there were plenty of upper-classmen across the state that had great seasons, none had one like Kai-ser.

Her 2.438 points per game is an incredible stat but her team-leading 17 assists in 16 games proved that she got her teammates involved in liter-

ally every single game she played this season.

Musson recorded a very impres-sive 35 points this season and led the team with 14 goals. She also recorded seven assists.

Kaiser and Musson were the best underclass-woman duo in the entire state and Ralston Valley should again be one of the state’s best teams for the next couple seasons.

The Mustangs also had their junior goaltender Renee Romer on the All-State Second Team. Romer is regard-ed as one of the best goaltenders in the state winning 10 of the 11 games she appeared in — with six of those 10 being shutouts.

Ralston Valley shocked the soccer world by making it all the way to the state championship game at Dicks Sporting Goods Park as a No. 10 seed.

The Mustangs beat Boulder, Cher-ry Creek, Rock Canyon and then Pine Creek in dramatic fashion, before fall-ing to No. 8 Columbine 3-1 in an all-Jeffco state title game on May 22.

Ralston Valley fi nished 16-4 (6-2 in 5A Jeffco) and moreover, they will

return most of their team and should make another run at a state title over the next couple seasons.

The All-State teams honor the best players in the sport as judged by the leagues and coaches. These teams were created following a lengthy pro-cess which included nominations from leagues and coaches, and then a vote of coaches.

Players of the year were also se-lected by a vote of the coaches.

In other local sports news: The 2014 All-State Boys and Girls

Lacrosse Teams were announced Wednesday. There were no 5A boys who made the list but the 4A All-State Team featured four Wheat Ridge play-ers.

Senior goaltender Jensen Makarov and senior John Roach made the list as First Teamers, and senior Tyler Knott and freshman Zach Hall made the list as Second Teamers.

Only one girl lacrosse player from Jeffco made the All-State team as Wheat Ridge senior Gianna Ossello was honored.

to bring effi ciency and fairness.“The assessor’s offi ce needs fresh air,” Sandstrom said.His opponent, Lou D’Aurio, won the county assembly

vote with 51.50 percent, receiving 3.22 percent more votes than Sandstrom.

D’Aurio has been the deputy county assessor for the last 15 years.

“I really like my job,” D’Aurio said. “I like working with the people, I really enjoy helping people.”

D’Aurio has been a registered appraiser since 1999 and has also served on various county boards and committees like the Jeffco Sheriff’s Advisory Board and public health board.

“Instead of complaining about any problems, I try to fi nd solutions,” he said. “I do listen to the public, I do lis-ten to the people to try to fi nd out where they are coming from.”

During his career at the assessor’s offi ce, D’Aurio stated that staff has found ways to save taxpayers money by bet-ter utilizing employees. The offi ce which once had 72 peo-ple now has 53. “We did that not by fi ring anybody, as they left, the job was retired,” he said. “We just found a better way of doing our job.”

Voters have less than a week to drop off their ballots at designated locations, or mail them back immediately, to arrive before the June 24 deadline.

For more information about the candidates, visit Lou D’Aurio at www.louforassessor.com and Ron Sandstrom at sandstromforassessor.com.


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